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		<title>Republicans Want to Kill Elderly People, But Jeremiah Wright is Out of Bounds</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/18/republicans-want-to-kill-elderly-people-but-jeremiah-wright-is-out-of-bounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine for a moment that Mitt Romney had spent 2o years of his life attending the sermons of a right-wing zealot who claimed it was America&#8217;s fault it was attacked on 9/11 and that America should be damned. Further imagine that Romney was on record as saying that this man was a mentor and a close friend. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Will Smith is a Greedy Rich Guy Because He Opposes 75% Top Tax Rate?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/18/is-will-smith-is-a-greedy-rich-guy-because-he-opposes-75-top-tax-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair share]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[france tax rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greedy rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top tax rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[will smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Powers of Michelle Malkin&#8217;s blog writes that actor Will Smith supports President Obama’s call for America’s top earners to pay more taxes but thinks France&#8217;s 75% top tax rate is too high: Here’s a brief transcript from an interview with Smith that ran on French television. Video via Real Clear Politics: Will Smith: I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Code Section 162(m) Work to Reduce Excecutive Pay?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/17/does-code-section-162m-work-to-reduce-excecutive-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/17/does-code-section-162m-work-to-reduce-excecutive-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[162(m)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive pay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In The Million-Dollar Question: Has Congress Missed the Mark with I.R.C. § 162(m) Compensation Deduction Caps? Christopher Jones of Georgetown University examines whether the tax code&#8217;s cap on deductible executive pay works: Theories abound as to why the disparity between executive and worker pay has grown so dramatically and whether that growth is justified. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maryland to Increase Taxes on &#8220;Rich&#8221; Residents Earning More than $100K Per Year?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/15/maryland-to-increase-taxes-on-rich-residents-earning-more-than-100k-per-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/15/maryland-to-increase-taxes-on-rich-residents-earning-more-than-100k-per-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maryland tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth flight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tax Policy Blog reports that the Maryland legislature is considering whether to pass a law that would raise tax rates on wealthy individuals. And what is considered wealthy in Maryland? $100,000.00 of annual income: Maryland&#8217;s tax special session began today; expect more analysis on it from us tomorrow. However, we just received detail on S.B. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wealth Flight: Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Renounces U.S. Citizenship to save Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/14/wealth-flight-facebook-co-founder-saverin-renounces-u-s-citizenship-to-save-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/14/wealth-flight-facebook-co-founder-saverin-renounces-u-s-citizenship-to-save-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook founder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saverin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth flight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Russell of WebCPA reports that Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook, has renounced his U.S. citizenship prior to the company going public in a move apparently designed to limit his U.S tax liabilities: The Brazilian-born resident of Singapore took the action last year, and his name appears on an IRS list of people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Paid Illegal Immigrants $4.2 Billion in Fraudulent Child Care Credits</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/14/irs-paid-illegal-immigrants-4-2-billion-in-fraudulent-child-care-credits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/14/irs-paid-illegal-immigrants-4-2-billion-in-fraudulent-child-care-credits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child care credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal aliens]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Caron reports that the rumor that illegal immigrants received $4.2 billion in fraudulent Child Care tax credit payments from the IRS is true: Following up on last week&#8217;s post, Illegal Immigrants&#8217; Child Tax Credit Fraud Costs IRS Billions: FactCheck.org, Tax Credits for Illegal Immigrants: Q: Does the IRS pay billions in tax refunds to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did IRS Illegally Disclose Romney&#8217;s Donation to Pro Traditional Marriage Group?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/11/did-irs-illegally-disclose-romneys-donation-to-pro-traditional-marriage-group/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/11/did-irs-illegally-disclose-romneys-donation-to-pro-traditional-marriage-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 17:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hatch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs confidentiality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs disclosure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[romney donation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[26 USC § 6103 &#8211; Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information &#8211; provides that a taxpayer&#8217;s tax return information shall be confidential: a) General rule  Returns and return information shall be confidential, and except as authorized by this title — (1) no officer or employee of the United States, (2) no officer or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Votes Down S Corporation Changes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/10/30116/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/10/30116/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislative Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S Corporations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[s corporation distributions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stop student loan interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tony nitti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago the Senate failed to pass Senate bill S. 2343, the “Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012 which would have limited the ability of S corporation shareholders to classify payments made to them by their corporations as distributions thereby avoiding self employment tax. Tony Nitti has the story: The bill would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death (by Suicide) and Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/09/death-by-suicide-and-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/09/death-by-suicide-and-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omission of income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharlotte hydorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Nitti of Double Taxation has an interesting story about the tax evasion of a woman who sold suicide kits: [W]hile a 92-year old retired school teacher would never be confused with a legendary criminal of Capone’s ilk, Sharlotte Hydorn shared one thing with Big Al: it again took the IRS to put an end to Hydorn’s  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Bartlett on Wealth Flight</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/09/wealth-flight-update-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/09/wealth-flight-update-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 12:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bruce bartlett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Bartlett writing for the New York Times in Will Rich People Desert the U.S. if Their Taxes Are Raised? says: In recent years, the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship has increased. According to the international tax lawyer, Andrew Mitchel, the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship rose to 1,781 in 2011 from 231 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message to 99 Percenters: Stop Watching TV and Playing Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/06/message-to-99-percenters-stop-watching-tv-and-playing-video-games/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/06/message-to-99-percenters-stop-watching-tv-and-playing-video-games/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 11:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[99 percent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequallity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one percent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robert frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth inequality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Economist Robert Frank writing for the Wall Street Journal Wealth Report asks Do the Wealthy Work Harder Than the Rest?: One of the most controversial issues surrounding inequality is work  effort.  Some on the right argue that top earners are successful in  part because they work harder than others. Many on the left argue that  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Taxpayers&#8217; Taxes Exceed their Living Expenses</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/04/american-taxpayers-taxes-exceed-their-living-expenses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/05/04/american-taxpayers-taxes-exceed-their-living-expenses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kevin duncan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us tax rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[who pays taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Duncan of The Tax Foundation writes in Americans Paying More in Taxes than for Food, Clothing, and Shelter: In 2012, Americans will pay approximately $4.041 trillion in taxes, which is $152 billion, or 3.9%, more than they will spend on housing, food, and clothing. &#8230; Between 1929 and the early 1980s, aggregate tax collections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rich Got Richer and So Did Everybody Else</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/04/24/the-rich-got-richer-and-so-did-everybody-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/04/24/the-rich-got-richer-and-so-did-everybody-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class warfare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[enterprise blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pethokoukis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piketty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Income equalitarians like President Obama really don&#8217;t want to hear that the incomes of the poor and middle class rise when those of the rich rise because it destroys their argument that the rich are benefiting at the expense of the lower classes. Cornell has conducted a study that says just that, once again giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Obsession with Income Inequality</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/04/23/the-lefts-obsession-with-income-inequality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/04/23/the-lefts-obsession-with-income-inequality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holman jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wall street journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.&#8221; - Samuel Johnson - Holman Jenkins, Jr. of the Wall Street Journal in The Inequality Obsession echoes what I have been saying about the left&#8217;s obsession with income inequality: If it were learned that the car driven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes Kill People</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/04/12/taxes-kill-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/04/12/taxes-kill-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death by taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leroy Baker of Tax News. Com reports that car crash deaths increase on tax filing  day. The Journal of American Medical Association did a study and found that traffic deaths have increased an average of 6% each tax filing day for the last thirty years. If it&#8217;s fair to say that Republicans want to push [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s IRS Increases Tax Audits of 1 Percenters</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/26/obamas-irs-increases-tax-audits-of-1-percenters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs audits rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama administration audits rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one percenters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal reports in IRS Ramps Up Audits of Wealthiest that &#8220;the IRS expanded its audits of Americans earning more than $500,000 last year, with a stark increase for those making more than $1 million:&#8221; The agency, in an annual report released Thursday, said it performed audits in the year ended Sept. 30 on 5.4% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shocker: Tax Preparation Outfit Named &#8220;Mo&#8217; Money Taxes&#8221; isn&#8217;t Legit</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/19/shocker-tax-preparation-outfit-named-mo-money-taxes-isnt-legit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/19/shocker-tax-preparation-outfit-named-mo-money-taxes-isnt-legit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraudulent tax preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[granberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mo money taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes by mr bill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James Maule tells the story of a tax preparation company called Mo&#8217; Money Taxes: One of my readers alerted me to a story of which I had been unaware. It involves a tax return preparation enterprise that has created nightmares for its clients. The story involves a business called Mo’ Money Taxes, which is based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Offers Feeble Tax Relief in Hopes you Won&#8217;t Hire a Tax Professional</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/08/irs-offers-feeble-tax-relief-in-hopes-you-wont-hire-a-tax-professional/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/08/irs-offers-feeble-tax-relief-in-hopes-you-wont-hire-a-tax-professional/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxpayer Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs tax relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayer bill of rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IRS collection officials do not want you to hire a tax professional. Why? Because when you represent yourself the IRS has a decided advantage. First, it is easier for them to intimidate and frighten you because they know you don&#8217;t know the law. Second, it makes it infinitely more likely that their procedural mistakes, their over-assessments and their violations of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France Wants to Tax the Rich</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/05/france-wants-to-tax-the-rich/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/05/france-wants-to-tax-the-rich/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 03:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics of Taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[france tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soak the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax the rich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The tax-the-rich left finally has the conclusive proof it has been seeking that it is absolutely, unequivocally the right thing to do for the United States to increase taxes on the rich: France is doing it. Charles Riley of CNNMoney says that &#8220;raising taxes on the rich isn&#8217;t just an election year issue in the United States &#8212; it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former IRS Agent &amp; Tax Preparer Orders Hit on Former Clients</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/05/former-irs-agent-tax-preparer-orders-hit-on-former-clients/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/03/05/former-irs-agent-tax-preparer-orders-hit-on-former-clients/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraudulent preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steven martinez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax fraud]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News reports that a former IRS agent whose tax preparation business catered to a wealthy  clientele is accused of ordering at least two former customers killed as they  prepared to testify against him on fraud charges: Federal prosecutors say the targets were key witnesses against Steven Martinez, 50, who was charged last year with stealing  [...]]]></description>
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